Isnt there a fish that swims up your urethra when you pee in the water?
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Tue 22 Jun 2010, 8:21,
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Yes the Candiru
I think that's what it's called. Lives in the Amazon. I remember that explorer bloke Redmond O'Hanlon talking about this on the Wogan talk show and Wogan desperately trying to shut him up. You have to pee through a tea-strainer to stop it entering your body and sticking its spines out.
(, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 8:47, Reply)
From 'In Trouble Again"
In the Amazon, on the other hand, should you have too much to drink, say, and inadvertently urinate as you swim, any homeless candiru, attracted by the smell, will take you for a big fish and swim excitedly up your stream of uric acid, enter your urethra like a worm into its burrow and, raising its gill-covers, stick out a set of retrorse spines. Nothing can be done. The pain, apparently, is spectacular. You must get to a hospital before your bladder bursts; you must ask a surgeon to cut off your penis.
(, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 8:58, Reply)
Hmmmm
Only 1 documented case. I smell an urban legend....
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 9:14,
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